Category: Hey, Mr. Science Guy!
It’s A Shame that John Bad Mutha Shut Yo Mouth Didn’t Discover This Comet
Some comets hide debris in their long tails. Comet Lovejoy hides a fist and a leaping spin-kick.
If the World is Devoured By A Giant Space Squid on Saturday, Blame NASA
We sent a squid into space today. Let me say that again. We sent a squid into space today. Now, when I say “squid”, I don’t mean an old sailor or some sort of WWII vintage weapon. I mean we sent a ten-armed marine cephalopod into space. Oh, and it’s not just any squid. It’s [...]
In Space, No One Can Hear the Snowpocalypse
Holy crapweasel, that’s a big storm! If you look carefully, you can see snow on the ground in Maryland and farther north. Neat stuff from NASA GOES.
Here is Alcohol You Can Admire
Someone get this to Stephen Green, stat! If you have often wondered what exactly lies within the various concoctions that make our favourite alcoholic drinks, then here is your answer. These incredible pictures show popular cocktails magnified up to 1,000 times under a high-tech laboratory microscope. Produced by U.S. firm Bevshots, they reveal the incredible [...]
“What Did You Do In School Today?” “Not Much. Crashed a Satellite”
I never got to do anything this cool in my college days. When a NASA satellite met its doom in a fiery blaze in Earth’s atmosphere after a seven-year mission, a bunch of college students were at the controls. But these students didn’t hack into NASA to take the satellite for a destructive joyride — [...]
Well, At Least We Weren’t Devoured By the Nuclear Chaos
Good news, everyone! The Large Hadron Collider has succesfully caused its very first high-energy particle collision. The experiment went off pretty much as planned, which means it did not create a planet-swallowing black hole nor did it rend the very fabric of space and time and create a gateway through which horrors beyond man’s reckoning would heave [...]
Science Geeks, Fire Up Your Browsers and Stock Up the Dew!
When I was a kid, I used to love leafing through my Dad’s old collection of Popular Science magazines. He didn’t have quite as many of them as he did National Geographic, but he had more than plenty to keep a curious Science Geek in Training busy for many hours*. I got away from PopSci [...]
Whoa Up There A Bit, Science. You Lost Me at “Voodoo”.
Okay, scientists, we get it. You’re incredibly smart and able to tinker with the DNA of even the smallest animals. And…well…it’s not that we don’t trust you, but whoa up a bit, okay? Before you turn your “Swarms of Engineered Voodoo Wasps” loose on the various crop pests of the world, can you make extra [...]
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